Dictionary of Material Science and High Energy Physics Part 8 pps

... shift). energy spectrum The set of energy eigen-states of a physical system. The set of possibleoutcomes of a measurement of the energy; alsoknown as the set of allowed energies. energy- time ... closely spaced points and not onthe path between them.exchange energy Part of the energy of asystem of many electrons (or any other type of fermion) that depends on the total spin of thesystem. ... scatteringcross-section as a function of incident energy. The excitation function maps out the strength of the interaction of a scattered particle and thetarget as a function of their relative energy. exciton The...

... conservation of energy and momentum.density of modes The number of modes of the radiation field in an energy range dE. Thedensity of modes is a function of the boundaryconditions ofthe spaceunder ... represents a degree of freedom of the distribution.(2) The number of independent coordinatesneeded for the description of the microscopicstate of a system is called the number of degrees of freedom. ... likely velocity of the distribution, T is theequilibriumtemperature oftheatoms, andm and M are their atomic and molar masses, respec-tively. k and R are the Boltzmann constant and general gas...

... ina flow field.kinetic energy A form of energy associatedwith motion. Every moving particle has kinetic energy. The kinetic energy of a non-relativisticparticle with mass m and speed v is equal ... =m1m2m1+m2is the reduced mass for particles of mass m1 and m2, and r = r1− r2are therelative position vectors of particles 1 and 2.Suitable sets of center -of- mass coordinates canbe similarly ... rotation of the axes of reference. These conditions are not typical inreal flows. On the other hand, assumptions of isotropic and homogeneous turbulence have ledto understanding of many aspects of...